Posted on February 27, 2008 by clarisnetworks
Is sliding performance from Google an indicator of an economic slowdown or tired fingers?
Here’s the humorous rundown.
If you’ve scrapped up enough money and jumped on the Google stock bandwagon, you might think the world is ending. But if you read the story from the Wall Street Journal today, you’ll also notice that the five percent [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008 by clarisnetworks
Someone’s raining on Microsoft’s virtualization parade…and I think I know who THEY are…
VMWare announced today that it has inked a deal with Dell, HP, IBM and Fujitsu that basically delivers a kick-ball home run against Microsoft, who is desperately seeking to establish a greater market presence with its virtualization technologies.
Dell, HP, IBM and Fujitsu have agreed [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by clarisnetworks
To quote Matchbox 20, “Let’s see how far we’ve come.”
PC World has a great article on the technological progress that we’ve made in a short 20 years. Think your Blackberry is pricey? Try $4382 in 1988…
Also, PC World offers some insight to where technology may go in the next 25 years.
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by clarisnetworks
Bad news for those of you who rely on encryption as a method of information protection.
A study from late last week sheds some light on data encryption and how easy it’s become to hack a computer. Apparently it only takes a “blast of air”. Article here.
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by clarisnetworks
ORNL and Sandia National Laboratories announced yesterday that they plan to develop a computer which can process 1 million trillion “flops” (calculations) per second. To put such a large number in perspective…well, I can’t even figure out how many zeros that would be, but it’s a lot to say the least.
Just think, the first computer, [...]
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